gallant

Plural: gallants

Noun

• a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
• a man who attends or escorts a woman
• A fashionable young man who is polite and attentive to women.
• One who woos, a lover, a suitor, a seducer.
• A topgallant.

Adjective Satellite

• unflinching in battle or action
  • "a gallant warrior"
  • "put up a gallant resistance to the attackers"
• lively and spirited
• having or displaying great dignity or nobility
  • "a gallant pageant"
• being attentive to women like an ideal knight

Adj

• Brave, valiant, courteous, especially with regard to male attitudes towards women.
• honorable.
• grand, noble.
• Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.
• Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.

Verb

Verb Forms: gallanted, gallanting, gallants

• To act like a suitor, especially to court a woman.
• To attend or wait on (a lady).
• To handle with grace or in a modish manner.
• To conduct, escort, convey.
• To behave in a gallant fashion; to act the gallant.

Examples

• He didn’t need to GALLANT any women, just the triple-word score for his bingo.
• to gallant a fan
• to gallant ladies to the play

Synonyms

beau, chivalrous, clotheshorse, dandy, dashing, dude, fashion plate, fop, knightly, lofty, majestic, proud, sheik, squire, swell, Jemmy-Jessamy, adulterer, barbermonger, bed-hopper, blade, blood, buck, carpet knight, carpetmonger, chamberer, cockscomb, debauchee, debaucher, dike, dood, dudelet, exquisite, fashionable, fast man, fine gentleman, foretop, fornicator, fribble, gallant, go, hood rat, jack-a-dandy, jetter, lecher, lewdster, libertine, macaroni, masher, metrosexual, mignon, petit maître, philanderer, player, popinjay, pretty boy, prig, puss-gentleman, rake, rantipole, rizzler, roué, seducer, smart, spark, spiff, tippy, toff, voluptuary, wanton

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